On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:40:47PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 2004, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
>
> > Can you explain in more detail in which maintainer scripts the scripts
> > are called under which circumstances?
> >
> > Is this is only a problem with cdd-0.2? If yes, is it really necesarry to
> > introduce a pre-depends just for the sake of smooth upgrades for unstable
> > users?
> Yes. I only noticed the problem on a machine I did not updated from cdd-common
> 0.2 to 0.3 in my development process. If you have installed cdd-common 0.2
> on a machine the postinst script of the debian-med tools (version 0.6 which
> depends on cdd-common 0.2) failed because the tools from cdd-common 0.2
> were just removed and tried the new postinst script which depended from a
> config file in cdd-common 0.3 which was not yet installed.
You have just described a scenario which requires a normal
dependency. Not a pre-dependency.
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